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Publications
Publications
Search our Journal repository for peer-reviewed, scientific publications produced by staff and students of the Institute. The lists include all publications produced since the Institute's inception
Assessing the ecological consequences of crude oil spills on bird communities in an Afrotropical landscape
Year: 2025 . Journal: Environmental and Sustainability Indicators . DOI: 10.1016/j.indic.2025.100600
Effects of urbanization on avian diversity and human-nature interactions in tropical environments
Year: 2025 . Journal: PhD Dissertation . DOI: https://ik.imagekit.io/1ak7e44tjrf1/aplori/Thesis_Adewale%20Gboyega%20Awoyemi_20%20Jan%202025_signed_Ai-4ZAuMcD.pdf?updatedAt=1742842242178
Comparing migratory connectivity across species: the importance of considering the pattern of sampling and the processes that lead to connectivity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ibis . DOI: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13261
Difference in acoustic responses to urbanization in two African passerines
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ostrich . DOI: https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2024.2310683
The Inhibitory Tendency of Calamagrostis epigejos and Solidago spp. Depends on the Successional Stage in Postindustrial Vegetation
Year: 2024 . Journal: Land Degredation and Development . DOI: doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5348
Detection of clade 2.3.4.4 highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 viruses in healthy wild birds in the Hadeji-Nguru wetland, Nigeria 2022
Year: 2024 . Journal: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses . DOI: 10.1111/irv.13254
Human-nature interactions in the Afrotropics: Experiential and cognitive connections among urban residents in southern Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecological Economics . DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108105
A comparison of the sampling effectiveness of acoustic recorder, camera trap and point count methods in sampling nocturnal birds in Afrotropical landscapes
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11389
Agro-morphological Growth Response of Acha (FONIO) (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua [kippist] Stapf.) Exposed to Colchicine: Number of Spikes, Spike Length, Number of Seeds per Spike and Grain Yield
Year: 2024 . Journal: Journal Plant Science Phytho pathology . DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.29328/journal.jpsp.1001142
New IUCN Species Survival Commission Wild Parrot Specialist Group
Year: 2024 . Journal: Oryx . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324001054
A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Federal College of Forestry, Jos Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Adamawa State University Journal of Scientific Research (ADSUJSR) . DOI: ISSN: 2705-1900 (Online); ISSN: 2251-0702
Urban lawn vegetation structure impact arthropod abundance and cattle egret foraging success
Year: 2024 . Journal: Scientific African . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2024.e02137
Remote sensing for site selection in vegetation survey along a successional gradient in post-industrial vegetation
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70200
Agro-morphological Growth Response of Acha (Fonio) (Digitaria Exilis and Digitaria Iburua [Kippist] Stapf.) Exposed to Colchicine: Leaf Length, Leaf Width and Leaf Area Index
Year: 2024 . Journal: . DOI: DOI: 10.29328/journal.jpsp.1001134
Photospot: Mutation in Nigerian Birds
Year: 2024 . Journal: Bulletin of African Bird Club . DOI:
Avifauna species richness and abundance in relation to habitat features in selected areas of Guinea Savanna zone, Nigeria.
Year: 2024 . Journal: Journal of Research in Forestry, Wildlife and Environment . DOI:
Description of the downy chicks of Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
Year: 2024 . Journal: Malibus . DOI:
Center for Species Survival Nigeria launches programme of work
Year: 2024 . Journal: Oryx . DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324001066
Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Nature Ecology & Evolution . DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02280-w
Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Nature . DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01427-2
Citizen science mitigates the lack of distributional data on Nigerian birds
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11280
Associations between urbanization and avian communities in the Afrotropics: Evidence from taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Global Ecology and Conservation . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03108
New National Species Specialist Group in Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Oryx . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324001030
Think globally and act locally: Assessing the environmental impacts of the Nigerian threatened native trees project
Year: 2024 . Journal: Societal impacts . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100067
Using one health training for interprofessional team building: implications for research, policy, and practice in Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Frontiers in Public Health . DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1375424
Habitat variables influencing bird assemblage patterns across maize and legume fields before and after harvest in West Africa
Year: 2024 . Journal: Wildlife Biology . DOI: doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01282
Structural and acoustic properties of urbanized landscapes adversely affect bird communities in a tropical environment
Year: 2024 . Journal: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1457049
Impact of forest cover loss on forest dependent avian species in Kenya
Year: 2024 . Journal: Scientific African . DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2024.e02463
Macrofungal Diversity in Gashaka Gumti National Park
Year: 2024 . Journal: Bima Journal of Science and Technology, . DOI: 10.56892/bima.v8i2B.710
Ecological consequences of urbanization in Afrotropical bird communities: present and future prospects
Year: 2024 . Journal: Frontiers in Conservation Science . DOI: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1503408
Co–creation Approaches to Improve Conservation Efforts of African Elephant Populations in Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: European Journal of Sustainable Development . DOI: https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2024.v13n4p1
Seasonal movements of Black Coucals Centropus grillii in Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ostrich . DOI: https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2023.2297378
Do honey badgers and greater honeyguide birds cooperate to access bees’ nests? Ecological evidence and honey-hunter accounts
Year: 2023 . Journal: Journal of Zoology . DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13093
New sightings and first photographs of the Kupe Bush-shrike Chlorophoneus kupeensis in Nigeria
Year: 2023 . Journal: Malimbus . DOI:
Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems
Year: 2023 . Journal: Nature Communications . DOI:
Innate immune function and antioxidant capacity of nestlings of an African raptor covary with the level of urbanisation around breeding territories
Year: 2023 . Journal: Journal of Animal Ecology . DOI: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13837
Noteworthy bird records from north-east Nigeria including the first country record of Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea. African Bird Club 30(1), 95-98.
Year: 2023 . Journal: African Bird Club . DOI:
Extensions to known ranges of birds in Nigeria, revealed by the Nigerian Bird Atlas project, 2020–2022
Year: 2023 . Journal: Malimbus . DOI:
First description of the eggs and nestlings of Petit’s Cuckoo-shrike Campephaga petiti, and first records of its breeding in Nigeria
Year: 2023 . Journal: Malimbus . DOI:
Status of Urban Ecology in Africa: A systematic review
Year: 2023 . Journal: Landscape and Urban Planning . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104707
Bridging the gap in African biodiversity genomics and bioinformatics
Year: 2023 . Journal: Nature Biotechnology . DOI: 10.1038/s41587-023-01933-2
Aggressive hosts are undeterred by a cuckoo's hawk mimicry, but probably make good foster parents
Year: 2023 . Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B . DOI: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1506
Species Composition and Diversity of Vascular Plants in Rhizha Mountain Forest Jos, Plateau State Nigeria.
Year: 2023 . Journal: GPH-International Journal of Biological & Medicine Science, 5(12), 01-12 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7536862
Availability and the Extent of Utilization of Information Communication Technology among Senior Secondary School Students in Nsukka Local Government Area, Enugu State.
Year: 2023 . Journal: Journal of Family and Society Research . DOI: https://jfsr.afass.org.ng/index.php/JFSR/article/view/42
Human–Bat Relationships in Southwestern Nigerian Communities
Year: 2023 . Journal: Anthrozoös . DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2023.2166715
Comparative use of artificial structures and natural vegetation by birds in a built-up urban area in Ghana
Year: 2023 . Journal: Avian Conservation and Ecology . DOI: https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-02351-180106
Supplementing a grain diet with insects instead of fruits sustains the body condition of an omnivorous bird
Year: 2023 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10141
Antipredatory call behavior of lapwing species in an Afrotropical environment
Year: 2023 . Journal: Avian Research . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100137
VEGETATION AND WEATHER AS DRIVERS OF BUTTERFLY SPECIES RICHNESS AND ABUNDANCE IN A CONSERVATORY, CENTRAL NIGERIA
Year: 2023 . Journal: Journal of Research in Forestry, Wildlife & Environment . DOI:
Butterfly community composition within a tropical urban landscape is influenced by habitat type and temperature
Year: 2023 . Journal: Insect Conservation and Diversity . DOI: 10.1111/icad.12705
Mistletoes, locust bean trees and birds work together in Nigeria’s forest ecology
Year: 2022 . Journal: The Conversation Africa . DOI: https://theconversation.com/mistletoes-locust-bean-trees-and-birds-work-together-in-nigerias-forest-ecology-177264
The role of avian frugivores in the germination and dispersal of fleshy-fruited Ficus species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Year: 2022 . Journal: Journal of Ornithology . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-022-01963-8
Waterbird Population Estimates in Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands: Analysis of a Five-Year Monitoring Program
Year: 2022 . Journal: Wetlands . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-022-01532-y
Effects of nest site selection and nest concealment on nest survival of Gosling's Bunting (Emberiza goslingi)
Year: 2022 . Journal: The Wilson journal of Ornithology . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1676/20-00117
Intra- and inter-annual variation in body mass of two species of weavers in an Afrotropical environment
Year: 2022 . Journal: Bird Study . DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2022.2151561
Only one vulture was detected during transect surveys in northern Nigeria
Year: 2022 . Journal: Vulture News . DOI: https://doi.org/10.4314/vulnew.v82i1.2
Tree visitation and potential seed dispersal of keystone Ficus species by vertebrates in an urban mosaic landscape in eastern South Africa
Year: 2022 . Journal: Acta Oecologica . DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1146609X22000558
A leucistic Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus in Accra, Ghana
Year: 2022 . Journal: Malimbus . DOI:
Variations in Patch Use by Ruminant and Non-ruminant Herbivores in a Tropical Wildlife Reserve, Ghana
Year: 2022 . Journal: Journal of Resources and Ecology . DOI: 10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2022.06.018
Population trends of resident and migrant West African bird species monitored over an 18-year period in central Nigeria
Year: 2022 . Journal: Journal of African Ornithology . DOI: https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2022.2068691
